The lovely and awesome spookypooky contacted me about doing a personal swap, my very first personal swap, it went awesome. I asked for a cryptozoology curio cabinet or a day of the dead shrine and spookypooky asked if she could make both and of course i said yes and here are the awesome photos of the awesomeness she sent me, pretty much she rocks.

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OPEN!!!:including the oh so cute little yeti

seriously everything spookypooky makes rocks and now i have a little piece of her awesomenessBe Jealous

May I ask where you found those tiny crochet hooks for the crochet ornaments? They are adorable!

Thank you - I actually bought small pine craft dowels, and used an Olfa knife to cut them down to the length I want, then did a rough carving of the hook, and a fine grit sand paper to do the final shaping and smoothing out of it. Then finished with a couple of layers of clear coat. Because the dowels were so small, I had a number of failures with them breaking through or splitting, and chose the best ones out of a bunch I made to make the ornaments. Serious pain in the A.

MommyTheMaid contacted me to do a private swap because she wanted some hooded towels for her kids. She sent me some felt food 'cause I'm collecting it for my son Here's what she sent:

And she included chef's hats for both of my sons! Unfortunately, my older son has a redonkulously large head, so his didn't fit (although I could probably add some extra fabric & velcro to make it fit), but they both fit my youngest son:

This wasn't really a personal swap per se, but MiLady had missed the last round of Granny Daughters and I still had her information so I sent her some. I was surprised with a thank you gift this week. I love it so much.

I've been swapping with gamemom42 for over a year now and these are some of the content of the latest package I sent to her:

She wanted a fruit beanie for a newborn, but I've grown so tired with strawberry hats that I decided to go for the Swedish author/illustrater Elsa Beskow instead. She wrote this beautiful story about Tomtebobarnen long time ago and all the little children has death cap-hats. I've loved that story all my life and it felt nice to make something that not everyone has. I know gamemom42 loved it and I hope you do too.

I've been swapping with gamemom42 for over a year now and these are some of the content of the latest package I sent to her:

She wanted a fruit beanie for a newborn, but I've grown so tired with strawberry hats that I decided to go for the Swedish author/illustrater Elsa Beskow instead. She wrote this beautiful story about Tomtebobarnen long time ago and all the little children has death cap-hats. I've loved that story all my life and it felt nice to make something that not everyone has. I know gamemom42 loved it and I hope you do too.